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Parenting
The gift of children is the greatest blessing on a marriage. Parents are the guardians of their children and have the first responsibility to educate and provide spiritual, material, emotional and physical support to their children. They also have the duty to love and respect their children as persons and as children of God.
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Family Culture
The Family makes a significant contribution to the culture. It is “the first and vital cell of society”: At the same time, however, the family is continually influenced by the surrounding culture and faces many challenges as it seeks to preserve and promote genuinely human values in the home and wider society.
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Public Policy
Because of the unique and irreplaceable contribution the family makes to society – creating and nurturing new human beings in a loving and permanent environment – society has a profound responsibility to recognize, support and foster the family and marriage.
